The Reading Recovery curriculum has been criticized by researchers and studies, resulting in a ban from other states but not ...

Lori Miller has spent the last 31 years at Gifford Grade School turning her students into lifelong readers. The Rantoul native still lives in her home community and teaches at nearby Gifford Grade ...

Mrs. Reed likes to read,' is what she tells her first grade class. She was recently selected as Teacher of the Year at Destin ...

Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics.

Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Education have announced an investment of over $ 3.5 million to provide first ...

After spending years in the classroom, Jessica Reid Sliwerski decided to tap into her experience as an elementary school teacher and principal to teach ... reading when they are supposed to learn how ...

Nearly 38,000 first grade students in Iowa will receive literacy instruction books to take home and keep as part of a $3.5 ...

Almost 38,000 Iowa first grade students are ... Additionally, kindergarten and second grade students who attended a "department-funded high-quality summer reading program or a Learning Beyond ...